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A town named SANTA

Santa is a 4th class municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 14,059 people in 2,811 households.

Origin of the Municipality’s Name

These are the probable origins of the municipality’s name.

1. A popular lore tells us that when the scribe of the Spanish explorers was naming the places where they already established settlements, the scribe had a difficult time of thinking of a Catholic Saint’s name of saints to name the place (Santa Catalina, Santa Lucia, and Santa Maria were already taken), so the town was simply named “Santa.” (Some versions of the story say that the scribe fell asleep or was drunk when he was writing a name for the town and just wrote “Santa”.)